Chartmetric runs a music data analytics service that is used throughout the music industry; it gathers data from dozens of ...

Paste Magazine is The A.V. Club‘s source for music news and lists, artist interviews, and album reviews. I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far ...

Dec 25, 2025 By Mark Redfern (Senior Editor/Co-Publisher) Photography by Wendy Redfern (Lael Neale, Miki Berenyi, Pulp, Bartees Strange), Koury Angelo (Tunde Adebimpe), and Shervin Lainez (Wolf Alice) ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

If 2024 was the year of the situationship album (and, yes, there are still plenty that dropped thereafter), then 2025 was the year we danced through the fire. The hypnotic, high-tempo momentum of this ...

Sometimes the best albums are ones that got a bit overlooked upon release. That is the case with this gem of an indie rock ...

For the 16th year running, the Scene has counted up ballots from our wrecking crew of music writers to compile our picks for the 10 best local albums of the year. With yet another deluge of ...

This year was probably the most Britpop year since 1995 — the banner year that gave us Different Class, A Northern Soul, I Should Coco, (What’s the Story?) Morning Glory, and more. The biggest news ...

The top country albums of 2025 are so different from each other that it seems like the only thing they have in common is that they fall under the same umbrella genre. But there is one thing these ...

Could this be the most creative decade in the history of Latin music? 2025 certainly helped it feel as though we’re heading in that direction. Far from being hyperbolic, the notion makes sense ...

If there's one question that professional music lovers hear most often, it's some variation on: "Heard any good albums lately?" We always have, of course, but when it came time to highlight the cream ...